Ideal for small businesses, Piccante Web Design will tailor your website (not use a template) to the highest possible standards. We work closely with our clients to ensure that the process is smooth, understandable and that your website is online, on time and within budget.
Our portfolio showcases just a few of our sites but demonstrates a cross-section of the work done by Piccante Web Design. More information about the following specific types of sites is available by clicking on:
Suitable for most small businesses including those that want to sell a few products online. Ideal for producing the best possible search engine results these are the most flexible sites we offer in terms of design and appearance.
This superbly elegant and minimalist site was developed for specialist wine importers and distributors - Vincisive of the UK. Featuring a subtle shopping cart and sliding information panels this site was able to retain its clean and uncluttered look, yet provides more detail than initially meets the eye.
FitnessU needed a complete rebranding and image change to add real energy to their website. All logo and design work was done by Piccante Web Design and their website incorporates some great images to motivate and encourage corporate bodies and individuals to sign up for their fitness programs. PayPal is included for the online sales of their packages and a quick sign-up form using a modal (pop-up) window helps to hook potential clients.
Spindrift Reefs website is a visual underwater symphony of colour and peace. A strong image was carefully manipulated to ensre excellent text readability on all screens and media devices. The iconic spiral shell logo was another Piccante design at no extra cost to our client.
Finding beautiful lingerie in Hong Kong can be a struggle, especially for mothers-to-be. Sexy maternity wear, sportsbras, lingerie, shapewear and sleepwear are their speciality and these are displayed using a 'lightbox' style image viewer. A sleek sliding image menu provies a visually appealing way of navigating this site which maintains the strong black and red / burgundy theme of Bralicious' distinctive look.
This website packs a lot of punch - technically and with the impression it makes online. Its interactive features include news updating via a live Twitter feed, Content Editing System (including an editable photo gallery with lighbox viewer) and google map with custom marker. There is even the capability for its owners to add MP3 tracks that feature in the monthly gigs.
Finding your property in Tuscany or Umbria can be a daunting prospect. This will seem less-so after visiting Tuscany Property Advisors' website which, like the cooking in Italy, is uncomplicated and has taste! Keeping up the italian emphasis of looking good, this site uses some clever space saving techniques and custom scroll handles to avoid the aesthetically displeasing web-browser scroll bars. Che bello!
The exacting requirements of Aveen Jewellery required careful presentation of their exsquisite productions. A simple black background provides the perfect backdrop to their stunning jewellery and an image viewer expands a window to view a larger photograph of the thumbnails in each collection.
Jonathan Thomson's eye for aesthetics can take much of the credit for the look and function of this website - Piccante quite simply provided the technical know-how for this project. The navigation is reminiscent of progressing systematically through a gallery or exhibition and the clean minimalist layout showcases the artworks to perfection.
A dual-language (english and chinese) website for a Music Remedy class provider in Hong Kong. Eye-pleasing simplicity and elegance.
This magazine-style website features a Content Editing System so its owners can keep the site content fresh and up-to-date.
A gallery-based website featuring the amazing photography of Brett Ford. Superb images from Hong Kong and around the world are showcased in several galleries featuring a thumbnail slider, viewer and lightbox. Designed for larger screens to optimise each image, this site is ideally viewed on screen sizes 1280 pixels wide or larger.
Strong images, professional-quality photographs and swathes of colour set this site apart. Large amounts of text on any one page are avoided by using accordion-style dropdowns to keep the aesthetics sublime and appealing. Unashamedly, absolutely, irrestistibly feminine!
Speak Up wanted a website that was modern and uncluttered in appearance, yet had to show they took their fun seriously! A combination of playful photographs and artistic graphics brings this drama school site to life, appealing to adults and children alike. Bite-sized pieces of key information are displayed on the main site pages, while images and additional information opens nicely in translucent window overlays where more detail is required. A site that truly reflects modern website design.
The Koru post-natal care website is remarkably compact, yet functional and visually appealing. Warm images blend with the Piccante-designed koru logo to give a welcoming look to this 'single-page site'. Perfect for those businesses that don't have large amounts of information to get across to their clients.
Stunning images from Hong Kong, mainland China, Southeast Asia and further afield are simply canvassed and presented in a minimalist gallery viewer. A popout side menu keeps the focus on the photographs.
As providers of counselling services to school children, teenagers and adults, the Phoenix Practice website had to appeal to all target groups. Piccante provided the complete web service for this client including free logo creation, web hosting service, design and limited Search Engine Marketing (SEM) services.
This site featuring Saffron bakery's outstanding range is well displayed using a 'sliding' products menu then from each product page a number of thumbnails expand into a full-sized image. Saffron Bakery wanted a website that reflected it's own good taste - we achieved this with a charcoal and gold layout and a modern sliding homepage menu and 'lightbox' image viewers.
An ideal way to earn money from your investment property or a holiday home. We have many ways of arranging online bookings, from the simplicity of receiving an email from interested holiday-makers to a completely automated online booking system. Photo galleries, availability calendars and guestbooks for reviews and comments are a few options that may be added to increase the appeal and functionality of these sites. We recommend Globekey's instant online booking system to handle your bookings, receive credit card payments and take care of availability.
Follonico - a restored farmhouse, was a labour of love for its owners, Fabio and Suzanne. Their dream was to bring it back to life as a boutique B&B and to help them, Piccante's services were enlisted to create a site that reflected the beauty of the surrounding countryside while maintaining a minimalist look. Bookings can be completed and paid for online, a must for a serious accommodation supplier as savvy vacationers more frequently demand immediate confirmation of their holiday reservations. Once you've had a look at the site why not book that flight to Italy and go and see them? This site is also online in italian.
This website created for a holiday apartment rental in Albufeira, Portugal is a great example of how a holiday vacation site can work to earn a passive income. Guests can email reservations or questions directly from the website and view booking availability on a web-based calendar. A 'guestbook' lists guests' comments and a slideshow on the homepage demonstrates some of the beautiful local scenery.
A shopping cart site designed and installed by Piccante is an outstanding way to sell your products or services online. These sites are cost-effective, updateable yourself and have many features that include order processing and automatic invoicing, specials and discounted products, shipping calculators and even multiple currencies and languages. We set up your website with five information pages (such as 'about us', 'terms and conditions' etc) and your first five products to get you underway. A handy User Guide will assist you to maintain and update your website by yourself, saving ongoing fees and costs.
Your customers can track their purchases online and be updated automatically as you process their orders. PayPal integration is included in the cost of these sites so you don't have any expensive start-up costs or high monthly fees if your sales are low. The features we can implement to these sites are too numerous to list here, so please contact us if you have a query about what our purpose-built e-commerce solutions can or can't do.
Showcasing some of the highest quality organic baby clothes available, this website is a pleasure for shoppers to use. PayPal is built-in so payments can be made using all major credit cards or a PayPal account. Powerful, flexible and very importantly - easily updateable!
If you have one, or only a few products to sell, a purpose-built e-commerce solution may not be the best solution for you - Piccante can also integrate PayPal solutions to a regular website. You still get all the security benefits of selling using PayPal but have a more streamlined online solution, whether it is selling a single product, or several using a PayPal shopping cart.
Little Local is a new business based in Hong Kong selling hooded sweatshirts and other products featuring unique local designs. A heavy e-commerce site was not required as the PayPal mini-cart fit the site perfectly. The advantages of using PayPal mini-cart is that the purchaser does not have to leave your website when making multiple purchases and of course Piccante can integrate the shopping cart into your website seamlessly.
Two types of image viewer are incorporated into the Little Local site, a slider / viewer on the homepage and a lightbox viewer on the product page.
Set your web-browser alight with Kaitaia Fire's award winning hot sauce served up on a Piccante-designed site. Selling online is a key feature to this site and the web-shop is integrated with PayPal's shopping trolley - purchases can be made securely and without the need for an expensive credit card merchants account or payment gateway.
One of the easiest and most secure ways to sell online is through PayPal. There are many advantages to selling your goods or services in this way.
If you would like to find out more please contact us with your PayPal questions.
A very flexible and powerful type of site for displaying a lot of information, product data and/or news items. CMS sites are able to be updated without any assistance from Piccante and have many additional interactive functions for you, and your customers. The features of these types of sites are too numerous to list here, but we have made available for you our demonstration CMS site so you can see how the website works. Because it is easy to update your content remains fresh, topical and interesting to your visitors or staff - ideal for search engine performance too.
Outstanding for medium to large sized businesses or any website that has a requirement to update their content regularly. Features are nearly endless - the power and flexibility of these sites needs to be seen to be believed.
Often, a complete Content Management System is a bit over the top for many website owners who simply want to update their own website from time to time changing text or the odd image. This is where the Content Editing System performs superbly. It works like this:
Piccante designs your website and builds in blocks of text (or images) that can be changed easily. You simply login to an admin panel (you don't need to know any HTML) using the password that Piccante gives you, select the block you want to edit and type your changes. Save your work and your site is updated instantly.
It's easy to add editable content to your new or existing website, especially if we are building your new website. This option can be very cost-effective particularly for smaller websites with fewer pages. If you would like to find out more, or would like some questions answered then just contact us and ask us about our 'Content Editing System'. Some conditions do apply so please check with us to ensure that your planned content will fit our technical requirements for editing.
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